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The Congressional oversight panel has made public a set of roughly 70 photos from the estate of late convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the third such release from a cache of more than 95,000 photographs the committee has acquired from Epstein's estate. It features pictures of quotes from the book Lolita written across a woman's body, and obscured images of women's foreign passports.

This release arrives mere hours before the 19 December deadline for the Department of Justice to release each records associated with its investigation into Epstein.

"These images raise further inquiries about precisely what the DOJ has in its holdings," stated the senior Democrat of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What's in the Photos Made Public

A number of the photos published on recently depict Epstein conversing with academic and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private plane; Bill Gates positioned alongside a female whose features is redacted; Steve Bannon seated at a desk across from Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the most recent high-net-worth, prominent men to be pictured in Epstein property images released by the committee - formerly released photos also include US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, previous US treasury secretary Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Being pictured in the images is does not constitute indication of any illegal activity, and many of the photographed figures have stated they were not participating in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a statement accompanying the image publication, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein property holders did not provide background information or dates for the pictures.

"Photographs were picked to offer the general populace with clarity into a representative sample of the images received from the estate, and to offer understanding into Epstein's circle and his profoundly disturbing behavior," the announcement reads.

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The publication also contains a number of photos of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita inscribed in dark ink across various areas of a female's body, including her chest, lower extremity, pelvis, and rear. Lolita narrates the account of a young girl who was groomed by a adult literature professor.

One passage from the book written across a woman's upper body reads, "Lolita's name: the tip of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth".

The release also contains a collection of photos of female travel documents and official papers from nations globally, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the information on the papers, such as names and DOBs, is obscured but the committee indicated in a statement that the passports are associated with "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were engaging".

An additional photograph depicts Epstein seated at a workstation in close proximity in the company of three female figures whose features have been censored - one individual has her palm on Epstein's torso under his garment, and another individual is leaning to view a nearby laptop. Epstein appears to be assisting the third individual put on a bracelet.

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Another photograph made public is a screenshot of text messages from an unidentified sender who says they have been provided "some girls" and are requesting "$1000 for each individual".

Photograph Release Occurs Ahead of DOJ Deadline

The panel has thousands of photos in its custody from the Epstein property, which are "at once disturbing and everyday," its statement on Thursday noted.

The oversight panel first issued a subpoena to the estate of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 while facing trial on allegations of sex trafficking, in August.

The photographs and files the Epstein estate provided to the body are separate from what is largely called "Epstein-related records". Those files are documents in the DOJ's control related to its independent inquiry into Epstein.

Pursuant to the recently passed law, which the President signed into law recently, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to publish its documents. The full nature of what is found in the DOJ's records is not publicly known, and it's likely that a large amount of the content will be extensively redacted, similar to Congressional documents